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eyesofocean · 2024-09-20T21:35:54+00:00

So I used to wear the high heels and now I live in trainers and boots. But I see kitten heels a lot now and some lovely ones in Zara.

DillDanding · 21/09/2024 14:23

In terms of trends, they have made a bit of a comeback this year.

I am not a fan as they tend to render the wearer’s legs short and fat. Most unflattering.

NQOCDarling · 21/09/2024 14:23

Sologurn · 21/09/2024 11:19

Because it's Aibu and they're all so weirdly bitter and snippy. It's so weird

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Because acceptable has a different bloody meaning
And just because they are an 'unacceptable' item to the OP doesn't make them unacceptable to the rest of the world, nor 'unfashionable'

NQOCDarling · 21/09/2024 14:19

Growlybear83 · 21/09/2024 14:15

I had assumed that the boat comment was a reference to the OP's user name 😆😆

🤣🤣

Boomer55 · 21/09/2024 14:19

Does it matter what others think about your shoes? 🤷‍♀️

NQOCDarling · 21/09/2024 14:18

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 21/09/2024 14:01

Are people being deliberately obtuse? Obviously OP is talking about whether they're fashionable.

You may not care. But it's obvious what she means.

Words have different meanings for various reasons. Clarity being one of them.
Acceptable is NOT the same as fashionable. Kitten heels may not be acceptable to the OP, but that does not mean they are unfashionable, and it is ridiculous to interchange the two.

TammyOne · 21/09/2024 14:17

OP it’s just that Theresa May is the first thing that springs to mind when anyone says kitten heels 💁
In your pics, I like the short dress outfit but I really don’t think kitten heels go with floppy jeans. ( just my opinion)

Growlybear83 · 21/09/2024 14:15

I had assumed that the boat comment was a reference to the OP's user name 😆😆

NQOCDarling · 21/09/2024 14:12

Threetrees745 · 21/09/2024 10:42

Ok couple of things,

Where has the boat analogy came from?

Why be so literal about it. Maybe the OP could have said unfashionable instead of inappropriate but you KNEW what she meant. You and other posters just want to feel superior

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I bought up the boat thing!
I was trying to get the OP to explain why she used 'acceptable, because what is acceptable in one place, or to one person, is not acceptable in another place, or by another person. So, I said they would be unacceptable on the deck of a boat as they would ruin the teak!
However, @eyesofocean remains stubbornly unable to clarify why the shoes are 'unacceptable' rather than 'unfashionable'.
I didn't realise what is acceptable fashion is down to a single MN poster!

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 21/09/2024 14:05

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 21/09/2024 14:01

Are people being deliberately obtuse? Obviously OP is talking about whether they're fashionable.

You may not care. But it's obvious what she means.

No, no one is being obtuse. The OP is authoritatively spouting nonsense.

NQOCDarling · 21/09/2024 14:04

eyesofocean · 21/09/2024 09:45

Let me hold your hand whilst I say this as it may come as a shock …

Kitten heels haven’t been fashionable since the 00s.

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Why so rude? Is sarcasm a speciality?

IHaveNeverLivedintheCastle · 21/09/2024 14:03

GildedRage · 21/09/2024 02:59

@eyesofocean I don’t know if you’re
being facetious BUT kitten heels have been fashionable all along as an alternative to high heels more so than wedges and block heels.
Maybe you’re not petite, but for petite ladies proportionately it’s the go to height.
Are you relatively young and basing your new appreciation based on the last 2 years? Or magazines?
they are a classic.

@eyesofocean is authoritatively talking rubbish.

DancingPhantomsOnTheTerrace · 21/09/2024 14:01

Are people being deliberately obtuse? Obviously OP is talking about whether they're fashionable.

You may not care. But it's obvious what she means.

PinkyFlamingo · 21/09/2024 13:56

eyesofocean · 21/09/2024 02:40

Just because something is available doesn’t make it “fashionable” though

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I would hope most people wear what they like etc rather than what is "fashionable". 🙄

YellowphantGrey · 21/09/2024 13:54

Not for me but only because I can't walk in them! I need a platform and have some incredible platforms that were my Moms from the 70s that I wear when I need heels but then I've never wore what's in fashion and always looked "vintage"

I'm also aware that the 90s are now considered vintage......

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eyesofocean · 21/09/2024 13:50

TammyOne · 21/09/2024 11:27

I didn’t even realise they were back in the shops!
I don’t know OP. I was never a fan (always found it harder to keep my balance on a kitten heel than a blocky 1940s style heel)
Also, do you want to look like Theresa May?

I think they look nice to dress up a basic outfit, whereas actually I would think they were horrendous a few years ago.

And because one woman wears something then if you do too then you are instantly looking like her?

To think kitten heels are now acceptable?

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fossilgap · 21/09/2024 13:46

I’m average size and average height and I bought them and felt like a twat so I sent them back

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eyesofocean · 21/09/2024 13:42

goestheweasel · 21/09/2024 10:43

@eyesofocean are you from Liverpool by any chance?

No, I’ve been there once twice, once to just see it and once for work.

Why don’t you verbalise what you’re asking trying to say.

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Haroldwilson · 21/09/2024 11:58

Surely that's cruel to cats

HoppingPavlova · 21/09/2024 11:55

Shit, I never got the memo 🫤. Seems I’ve been wearing an old pair in a long period I was not meant to🤷‍♀️. How I havn’t been tackled in the street and had them pulled off, I don’t know. However, I do know what to wear on the deck of a boat and have never made a faux pas there. Where does this odd set of circumstances leave me in terms of acceptability🤔.

iamtheblcksheep · 21/09/2024 11:42

I ditched everything that wasn’t a ballet pump, trained or this heeled boot years ago. Where whatever the hell you want. Your feet will be grateful

DappledThings · 21/09/2024 11:40

Threetrees745 · 21/09/2024 11:05

All the posters that came here to jump on the OP and say they don't care about fashion etc are giving severe pick me girl energy.

Some people enjoy and care about fashion and being on trend. Your not superior and more enlightened if you don't.

If the OP had said fashionable in her post it would have been different. It's her conflation of unfashionable meaning unacceptable that riles people up. I don't think not caring about fashion makes me a better person but I also don't think caring about it makes what someone a better person or what they wear more acceptable.

TammyOne · 21/09/2024 11:27

I didn’t even realise they were back in the shops!
I don’t know OP. I was never a fan (always found it harder to keep my balance on a kitten heel than a blocky 1940s style heel)
Also, do you want to look like Theresa May?

Sologurn · 21/09/2024 11:19

Threetrees745 · 21/09/2024 03:05

Love how all the posters are giving the faux confusion trying to ask what the poster means by acceptable, knowing fine well that for about 25 years absolutely no one except your granny was wearing a kitten heel 🤣

You all KNOW what the OP means, why is everyone being a dick about it?

Because it's Aibu and they're all so weirdly bitter and snippy. It's so weird

Threetrees745 · 21/09/2024 11:18

seeminglyranch · 21/09/2024 11:07

To be fair OP is coming back with pretty odd comments. Kitten heels were fashionable in the 60s and the 90s at the very least but OP is adamant they weren’t acceptable ever before. 🙄

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I'm assuming that the OP is probably a similar age to me then as I understand completely what she is saying. My "going out" era was the late 2000s and early 2010s and it was all about the sky scraper stiletto platforms and no one would have been seen dead in a kitten heel.
She's probably just pointing out that they were considered very unfashionable for a very long time and now they seem to have made a come back, but instead of prompting a light hearted discussion people are responding with sneery faux confusion and meanness.

CockneyWheezer · 21/09/2024 11:14

I’ve worn kitten heel boots for decades, as I love that they look like you’re wearing a heel/look dressy, but aren’t hard to walk in. I’m 5’11, so I hated the towering heels trend in the noughties.

Zara have always been faithful to them! But they haven’t been widely available for a good 15 years or more in the high street, and thry are definitely back in shops again after being harder to find. So I’d say, yes, they’re back ‘on trend’.